Leading Teacher Range 3

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1487834

**Location Profile**:

- Thomas Mitchell Primary School is located in Endeavour Hills in South East Melbourne. We are a high performing school and are proud of our student¿s achievements.
- We have a dedicated and friendly staff who work collaboratively and support each other.
- Thomas Mitchell Primary School acknowledges and values the social, cultural, and linguistic diversity of our students, teachers and parents which is a source of pride and strength to all community members.
- The Thomas Mitchell Primary School Community is culturally rich and cohesive with a strong focus on the development of the whole child which includes academic, physical, emotional, social, intercultural, and creative growth. We challenge our students to achieve their potential with supportive staff and parents whose enthusiastic effort continue to ensure the provision of the best possible outcomes and learning environments for all.
- The school offers the specialist areas of Performing Arts; Music, Dance and Drama, Visual and Multimedia Art, Physical Education, Science, and further additional support programs in EAL and Learning Support.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC2** Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC4** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.

**SC5**Demonstrated experience in establishing and facilitating SSGs, engaging families, allied health professionals, and teaching teams to develop, implement, and monitor Individual Education Plans (IEPs) that drive improved learning and wellbeing outcomes.

**SC6** Proven capacity to lead and coordinate the Disability Inclusion Profile (DIP) process, ensuring accurate data gathering, collaborative meetings, and high-quality documentation that informs effective adjustments and resourcing.

**Role**:

- Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.
- Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
- Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
- Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
- Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- In recognition of the importance of leadership and management combined with exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the leading teachers may include but are not limited to:

- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities
- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
- Leading and managing the provision of professional development and developing individual and team development plans for teaching staff wi